| Description |
ix, 490 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
Comprehensive biography of the New England clergyman, President of Yale during and after the American Revolution, whose letters, journals and notebooks supply us with information about his times. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The meaning of New England -- The Great Awakening -- Yale -- Infidelity -- Abigail -- Academic dignity -- The calling -- Newport -- A library of unwritten books -- Dreams of glory -- Puritanism enlightened -- The ministry -- Christian freedom -- Anglicophobia -- The edge of civil war -- Christian union and disunion -- The making of an American -- Uprooted -- Parson or president -- New Haven again -- Wartime president -- Peacetime battles -- The collegiate life -- The academic life -- The great reconciliation -- Private life of a president -- A Yale Jacobin. |
| Subject |
Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795.
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Yale University -- Presidents -- Biography.
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College presidents -- Connecticut -- Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916- Gentle Puritan. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1962 (OCoLC)592972603 |
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Online version: Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916- Gentle Puritan. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1962 (OCoLC)607898792 |
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